# cambra
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Compare Occitan cambra and chambra. Doublet of càmera, a latinism.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkam.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkam.bɾa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cambra f (plural cambres)
* room
* bedroom
* chamber
* (euphemistic) stool

#### Derived terms

* anar de cambra
* antecambra
* avantcambra
* cambra de gas
* cambrejar
* cambrer
* cambres clares
* cambreta
* cambró
* de cambra
* recambra

### Further reading

* “cambra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cambra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cambra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cambra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Verb

cambra
* third-person singular past historic of cambrer

## Galician
### Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp”). Cognate with Portuguese cãibra and Spanish calambre; see also French crampe. Compare also Italian cambra, French cambre, from a different origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkambɾa̝/

### Noun

cambra m (plural cambras)
* cramp (a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled)
    Synonym: breca

#### Related terms

* grampa (“clamp”)
* grampo (“clamp”)

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cambra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cambra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cambra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cambre, from Picard or Norman, from Old Northern French, derived from Latin camur (“curved, bent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkam.bra/
* Rhymes: -ambra
* Hyphenation: càm‧bra

### Noun

cambra f (plural cambre)
* cramp, clamp
    Synonym: grappa

#### Related terms

* cambretta

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]

### Noun

cambra f (genitive cambrae); first declension
* medieval spelling of camera

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* cambra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cambra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 118/1

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* chambra

### Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French chambre.

### Noun

cambra f (oblique plural cambras, nominative singular cambra, nominative plural cambras)
* room, in particular a bedroom

#### Descendants

* Occitan: cambra, chambra

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camera”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 130

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of cámara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkambɾa/ [ˈkãm.bɾa]
* Rhymes: -ambɾa
* Syllabification: cam‧bra

### Noun

cambra f (plural cambras) (obsolete)
* room
    Synonym: cuarto
* bedroom
    Synonym: habitación

### Further reading

* “cambra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10